FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 678

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MARSH (Sponsor), DIXON, RUESTMAN, WILSON (130), RUZICKA, CUNNINGHAM (145), SANDER, MUNZLINGER, DAY, PORTWOOD, WILSON (119), DOUGHERTY, SCHOELLER, VIEBROCK, WELLS, POLLOCK, WALTON, PORTWOOD, DENISON, KELLY, EMERY, STEVENSON, RICHARD, SMITH (150), WETER, SATER, DETHROW, PAGE, NANCE  AND HOLSMAN (Co-sponsors).

                  Read 1st time January 30, 2007 and copies ordered printed.

D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 171, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to open enrollment.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 171, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 171.035, to read as follows:

            171.035. No school district with any territory contained in a county declared to be a federal disaster area on January 16, 2007, that cancelled classes or dismissed classes early for weather-related reasons for any of its schools for any days from January 15 to January 22, 2007, shall be required to make up the days or hours lost during such time. The requirement for scheduling two-thirds of the missed days into the next year's calendar under subsection 1 of section 171.033 shall be waived for the 2007-08 school year.

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